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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1955 (UE55091)
IKE HAILED AT CAPITAL:
Returning to Washington, D.C. President Eisenhower is hailed by thousands. After a few eloquent words of thanks to well-wishers at the airport, the President proceeds to the White House, through streets lined with crowds. Then, on to Gettysburg, and his farm, where Ike will complete his recuperation, while carrying on the nation’s business at the “little White House.”
BIGGEST JET BOMBER INTO SERVICE:
CAL. – The first B-52 jet bombers go into squadron service with the Strategic Air Command, marking full acceptance of the huge, inter-continental bomber, capable of ocean spanning range and speeds of better than 600 mph.
GRID HIGHLIGHTS:
PRINCETON-YALE – With an impressive win over Army behind them, the Bulldog tackles its ancient Tiger foe, and gets severely clawed. Yale’s nemesis, Royce Flippin, keeps a four year jinx alive as he sparks Princeton to a shattering 13-0 triumph.
U.C.L.A., WASHINGTON – The underdog Huskies of Washington are laded for bear, as they go into the second half with a 14-7 lead. An upset in the making, but it fades as in the final minutes they give their foes a 2 point safety, and the Bruins’ Decker boots a field goal for a hairbreadth victory 19-17, in the final seconds.
MICHIGAN STATE-MINNESOTA – The Gophers are game, but the Spartans operate with martial precision, and it’s a one-sided battle. Minnesota tallies twice, but Michigan state, in quest of a Rose Bowl bid, boosts its national standing with an overwhelming 42-14 final score.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1955 (UE55092)
BLAZE RAZES LOS ANGELES FACTORY:
A three alarm fire rages through the night, gutting a block long factory building. Daring close up scenes of toppling walls that injure 2 firemen, as 100 fire fighters battle the half-million dollar blaze.
LANDSLIDE BURIES PART OF TOWN:
CANADA – A freak of nature brings disaster to a small Quebec town when an underground river cuts an area 40 feet long, 1,000 feet wide. The earth gave way, engulfing houses and businesses, ruining the town’s 2-century-old church and bishop’s palace, and killing 3.
NEW GERMAN ARMY:
BONN, GERMANY – The first soldiers of the new German Army are formally inducted, a group of 100 which includes former officers of the Wehrmacht, with ranks as high as Lieutenant General.
STEVENSON’S HAT IN RING:
CHICAGO – Adlai Stevenson formally announces that he will campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1956, becoming the first of his party’s hopefuls to declare himself.
SPORTS:
HYDRO-GLIDER – At Cypress Gardens, the maiden voyage and test flight of the newest thing in water sport, a combination of hydroplane and helicopter, towed behind a speedboat, and soaring as high as 125 feet.
FOOTBALL: NOTRE DAME-NO. CAROLINA – At Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the underdog Tarheels put up a terrific battle to tie up the score into the third period, when Notre Dame busts loose on a fourth down pass, to romp to a 27-7 victory.
NEW JET BOAT SPEED MARK – On Lake Mead, Nevada, Donald Campbell continues his quest for speed, piloting his jet boat “Bluebird II” to the fantastic speed of 239 mph, climaxing a month of frustration and failure, and becoming the only man to exceed 200 mph on water, and live.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1955 (UE55093)
SULTAN RETURNS, MOROCCO RIOTS CONTINUE:
MOROCCO – A tumultuous greeting from thousands of fanatical nationalist followers welcomes Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef on his return from 2 years of exile. But the victory over the French fails to end mob terror, in Morocco or Algiers where bloodshed and violence continue.
NON-SKED CRASH KILLS 27:
SEATTLE – 27 die in the crash of a non-scheduled airliner, carrying soldiers home for Thanksgiving, but 47 others of those aboard miraculously escape from the twisted, flaming wreckage.
IMPERIAL FASHIONS:
BOSTON – Fashions created by the country’s leading designers, looking ahead to all of the ladies’ style wants in ’56, dresses and bows and tricky chapeaux.
FOOTBALL:
U.C.L.A.-U.S.C. – U.S.C.’s Jon Arnett romps 97 yards to cross the goal running back the kickoff all in vain. The play’s called back on an offside penalty, and favored U.C.L.A. goes on to win the game, 17-7, the Pacific Coast Championship and the Rose Bowl bid.
YALS-HARVARD – Bleak wintry weather fails to dismay 56,000 of the faithful as the Bulldog rips John Harvard in the Ivy League classic. Despite snow and slush, it’s a passing game, with phenomenal play considering the conditions. Yale wraps it up, 21-7.
OHIO STATE-MICHIGAN – The upset of the week as Ohio State’s Buckeyes derail Michigan’s “Rose Bowl Express,” in a hard-fought, action filled grid thriller. Tempers flare as the Buckeyes rack up their old rivals, 17-0, the first Ohio State victory over Michigan since 1937.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1955 (UE55094)
IKE BACK IN HARNESS:
CAMP DAVID, MD. – For the first time since his illness, President Eisenhower meets with the cabinet and other top advisors in full session, at the Chief Executive’s rustic retreat in the Catoctin Mountains.
LONDON TRAIN CRASH:
ENGLAND – 10 die, 99 injured when a city bound excursion train jumps the tracks in one of England’s worst rail wrecks of the year.
FASHIONS IN AN ORIENTAL MOOD:
NEW YORK – Fashions for ’56, featuring the exotic influence of the Orient, styled by Forever Young, and modeled at the Miyako Restaurant. East meets West in the world of fashion.
ESKIMO SCOUTS HONORED:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Navy wings for 2 Eskimo Scouts of the Alaska National Guard, honored at the Pentagon for rescue of Naval airmen.
MOTORBOAT SHOW:
SEATTLE – Preview of next year’s glittering boats and equipment, from luxury yachts to plastic dinghies, plaid water skis, and the most realistic duck decoy ever. The National Boat Show has everything aquatic.
SANTA CLAUS PARADE:
SEATTLE – The Christmas Season comes early to Seattle with a monster parade winding through streets lined with thousands of youngsters.
ENTERTAINMENT PERSONALITY OF YEAR:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Variety Club of Washington, D.C. presents its coveted “Personality of the Year” Award to entertainer Steve Allen.
HIPPO HAPPY:
SPAIN – Madrid zoo-goers get their kicks watching the giant Hippo, and its keepers at feeding time. Starts with a bath, then a meal of few hundred pounds of potatoes, and some dare devil dentistry as a keeper polishes the huge tusks
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1955 (UE55095)
FOOTBALL:
ARMY-NAVY – After traditional pre-game pageantry. Cadets and Midshipmen clash in the 56th playing of the interservice classic, and its one of the grid upsets of the year, as Navy, after a brilliant first-half showing, is downed by the Black Knights, 14-6.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1955 (UE55096)
REMOTE CONTROL TRAIN SHOWN:
NEW YORK – For the first time in history, a train is operated by remote control. Without an engineer aboard, the train runs over a regular commuter route in this test controlled by electronic signals from the control panel in a track-side station.
NEWS IN BRIEF:
TRACTOR FOR IKE – As President Eisenhower surveys his Gettysburg farm, he gets a pleasant surprise – the gift of a new tractor from a group of co-operative farm organizations.
SANAT VISITS DOG POUND – Waggish doings in Seattle, as Santa pays his annual visit to the dog pound, and sets up a frankfurter bedecked Xmas tree. All the pups can eat – their day to howl.
4-H CLUB MEMBERS at Chicago make news as a steer raised by Nancy Turner, 16, of Champaign, Ill., with the Grand Championship at the International Livestock Show, and the six healthiest 4-H club members in America are honored.
KITTENISH COUGARS – Paul Hartel of Canada shows off his two pet cougars, 200 pounds of steel-sinewed destructive power, each, but tame and friendly as kittens. Normally Canada’s most ferocious animals, these two are just plain affectionate.
SPORTS:
WALKING MARATHON. From New York’s City Hall to Coney Island, it’s a ten and a half mile heel-and-toe race, with 40 vying in the 45th annual contest. The winner, a West Pointer whose father competed 23 years ago.
GIANTS-BROWNS FOOTBALL – At the Polo Grounds, pro grid thrills as the football Giants battle the Cleveland Browns, eastern conference leaders, to a sensational 35-35 tie, scoring the final TD with only seconds left to play.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1955 (UE55097)
A.F.L. AND C.I.O. MERGE:
NEW YORK – After twenty years apart, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge to become the A.F. of L.-C.I.O., the world’s largest free labor organization, with 16 million members. Delegates hail new leaders, President George Meany and Vice-President Walter Reuther.
WORLD’S LARGEST TURBO-HELICOPTER is tested in Pennsylvania. Powered by three gas turbines, the 77 foot craft boasts high performance and operating economy with a 7-ton payload. 40 passengers or three jeeps.
MODERN SCREEN AWARDS are made in Hollywood. Kirk Douglas makes the presentation to the most popular film actor of the year, Rock Hudson – the second year in a row that he has won the coveted award.
ROUND-THE-WORLD COMET leaves London, on the globe-girdling flight that marks the dramatic debut of the completely redesigned version of the pioneering British jet transport that was grounded after a series of crashes.
ORANGE COW TAKES A BOW on the streets of New York, accompanied by a bevy of pretty gals in beach outfits, a confoozin’ and maybe amoozin’ stunt to publicize a brand of orange juice distributed by dairies.
CONANT MEETS BERLIN PRESS. The U.s. Ambassador to Germany spells out U.S. policy on Berlin to German newsmen, a blunt rejection of Red proposals to end the present 4-power rule of the city, and place it under East German control.
HOME-MADE ROBOT does chores for its sixteen-year-old inventor, an Oakland, Cal., high school student. Arthur the automaton is the second robot he’s built, capable of moving and hosing down the lawn, and prankishly squirting curious onlookers.
RAMS WIN TO HOLD WEST GRID LEAD:
LOS ANGELES – The Baltimore Colts versus the L.A. Rams, with 37,000 fans braving wintry weather to see the Western Conference leaders fight to hold their slim edge. It’s touch and go with the Colts moving to the lead in the 4th period, sparked by Alan Ameche. But Tank Younger torpedoes the Colts as the Rams roar back to a 20-14 victory.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1955 (UE55098)
25 DIE IN GERMAN HOUSING BLAST:
FRANKFURT – A mysterious blast destroys a new apartment house, with block-buster impact. Cause of the explosion, which killed 25, is unknown, but as rescue workers sift the crumbled wreckage for 1 person still believed to have perished, police speculate that an act of political assassination may have been attempted, at shocking cost.
NEWS IN BRIEF:
POPE AND PRESIDENT – His Holiness Pope Pius XII gives a formal audience to Italy’s President Gronchi, at which the treaty between the Vatican and Italy is renewed, in accordance with papal tradition.
HARMON TROPHY AWARDED – In Washington, D.C., Vice President Nixon presents the Harmon Trophy to the nation’s outstanding aviator of the year, marine Colonel James Coleman who test-piloted the “go-go-stick” plane.
ETHIOPIAN TRADE FAIR – Rioting at the U.S. Pavilion marks the Ethiopian trade fair. No politics involved – crowds get excited over free color pictures of Emperor Haile Selassie, and the police move in to keep order.
OIL BOOM BRINGS HOUSING – Venezuela’s oil-rich economy results in new modern schools and housing for Caracas, the Capital city. President Jimenez dedicates a modern school, and a housing project for 13,000 – rent $25.00.
HEISMAN AWARD GOES TO CASSADY:
NEW YORK – Presented with the annual Heisman Award for football’s outstanding player of the year, Ohio state’s Howard Hopalong Cassady. Newsreel clips bring back highlights of his ’55 grid performance which climaxed 4 sensational years on the collegiate gridiron.
FASHION HITS THE SKI TRAIL:
MT. HOOD, OREGON – Snowy slopes make winter official for ski-birds, and the camera captures an early glimpse of fashionable ski-togs for the coming season. The trend is toward gay colors, with a special bow for the look-alike set – matchmate sweaters for the trail.
CHANGE IN CHICAGO SKYLINE:
CHICAGO – The city’s first skyscraper in two decades is dedicated, the 41-story Prudential building. An imposing and impressive addition to the Loop skyline.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1955 (UE55099)
NOEL MAKES ITS DEBUT:
Christmas comes to Paris, the City of Light, and the magic of the season produces a merry toyland fantasy, truly Gallie in its dazzling deftness and glittering gaiety – a scene of magic to enchant youngsters everywhere.
NEWS IN BRIEF:
JAPANESE FISHERMEN PROTEST forceful exclusion by Korea from rich international fishing grounds, an angry Tokyo march on the Korean Diplomatic Mission that stops short of violence, but promises a major crisis.
GIANT CROCHET HOOK, the world’s biggest is demonstrated by its proud owner. It’s practical, actually makes rugs that sell for good money, but it’s too big for the house, blocks the highway, and when she drops a stitch – disaster!
STEAK DERBY in San Francisco. Hearty trenchermen sit down before a groaning board heavily laden with succulent steaks, for the first international eating race of its kind. Forks fly as the winner downs 6 pounds in 6 minutes.
CUB IN INCUBATOR. Milwaukee’s Washington Park Zoo applies all the resources of medical science in the fight to save a bear cub that was abandoned in the snow by its mother at birth. Only a few days old, the cub fights pneumonia.
SPORTS
BASKETBALL: ST. JOHN’S V. ST. LOUIS:
NEW YORK CITY – A see saw battle on the court launching the winter collegiate basketball season. The Billikens of St. Louis crash through the Redmen of St. John, with a 14 point scoring spree in the last 4 minutes to sew up an 88-80 victory.
FOOTBALL: RAMS V. PACKERS:
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Rams capture their 4th Pro Western Division title since 1949 in a hard-hitting contest with the Green Bay Packers. Rookie halfback Ron Waller breaks loose on the game’s fourth play for a 55 yard touchdown to put the Rams ahead, and they’re never behind. Final score, 31-17.
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1955 (UE55100)
16 NEW MEMBERS FOR UN:
NEW YORK – A nine year deadlock ends with the admission of sixteen nations to the United Nations. Outer Mongolia and Japan were barred during a last-minute compromise by the world organization, which votes to seat twelve nations of the free world group and four of the Communist bloc.
SUPERSONIC BAIL-OUT:
CALIFORNIA – Ultra slow-motion cameras record supersonic bail-out tests during which an instrument laden dummy is ejected from the cockpit attached to rocket sled traveling over 700 mph.
ROYALTY SEES THE FASHIONS:
LONDON – The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret are special guests at a style showing arranged by twelve of London’s top designers. Royal smiles and approval for the latest in fashions for royalty and commoner alike.
PREVIEW OF A HIT:
NEW YORK – At special press previews here and at major cities, the “Benny Goodman Story” gets its first public screening. Benny Goodman himself appears to congratulate the star who plays him in the picture, Steve Allen.
A WORLD ON WING:
ROME – The sky over Rome is black with birds… starlings by the hundreds and thousands. The birds fly in from the country to nest in the trees, and their flight patterns above the city thrill those who look upwards.
CHURCH AIDS WORLD NEEDY:
NEW YORK – Cardinal Spellman greets volunteer workers sorting and packing millions of garments collected in Catholic dioceses east of the Mississippi for shipment to the needy in wartorn countries.
NEW LOOK IN SUBMARINES:
AT SEA – The Navy unveils a new look in undersea craft, with testing of “Albacore,” embodying radical changes in hull design. Despite being smaller than conventional subs, the hull shape allows more living space for the crew.
GOV. CHANDLER INAUGURATED:
FRANKFORT, KY. – In traditional style, a horse-drawn show wagon carries Kentucky’s Governor-Elect “Happy” Chandler to inauguration ceremonies. Fifty thousand cheer the two hour parade.
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